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Vieille chanson du jeune temps

This delightful poem by Victor Hugo, dated 1855, has also been set in music by Léo Delibes, Emile Pessard, Charles-Marie Widor and Alain Jacques among others.
The original poem had 9 stanzas, each of 4 verses, and D’Erlanger kept only the 1st, 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th. The complete version was retained by Emile Pessard, Charles-Marie Widor and Alain Jacques (cf scores on ScoreExchange).
Translation (AJ):

I was not thinking about Rose,
Rose, to the woods, came with me;
We were talking about something,
But I don’t remember what.

A stream was running fresh and hollow
On the velvety mosses,
And nature in love
Was sleeping in the big muffled woods.

Rose undid her shoe
And put, with a naive gesture,
Her little foot in the clear water.
I did not see her naked foot!

I did not know what to say to her,
I was following her in the wood,
Seeing her sometimes smiling
And sometimes sighing.

I only saw that she was beautiful
When we left the muffled woods.
"OK, let’s stop thinking about it" she said.
Since, I keep thinking about it, always!

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